Your Questions About Solar Generators For Home Use
Mary asks…
How would you go about living off the grid ?
Make your home radically or totally independent of outside sources of water, electric, fuel, etc. and how can you do this economically ?
admin answers:
Plain and simple way.
First calculate a moderate use of electricity, add 20% and rig the house with a solar system.
As a backup (for when solar panels get too old or other issues) have a 1930’s style diesel generator back up and battery backup. Using a pulsed charging system can make batteries last for longer than the standard 10 years rating.
For fuel, make bio-diesel for your generator and for a diesel vehicle. This merely requires oil, lye, water and the processing equipment. You should buy good quality lye, but if you can’t, there’s always the opportunity to make your own (wood ash lye was used in pioneer days to make soap)
Water sources can be a well, rain catch system and purifiers for use with tanks. If your thinking long term I’d suggest a water tower.
You obviously would have to have some supportive equipment for this process. Like enough land to grow food or at least produce that you can extract oil from. A machine for extracting that vegetable oil for making diesel (some suggest a bio reactor and grow algae) and load up on alot of small equipment that is manual (like spice grinders, flour / grain griders, meat griders to minimize your need for electricity, therefore reducing the size of your solar power system.
Jenny asks…
Whats the average American families power requirements in a single day?
im thinking about putting up solar panels on our family home . i was wondering what setup i would need. 200 watts off energy every day isnt going to sustain a house based on the assumption that the average american family uses …. 30 kw of energy in a single day (average DO NOT quote this)
admin answers:
Well you can figure it out yourself pretty closely if you wish to do a little math. Im pretty drunk, but basically add up your wattage of all your appliances. 1000w= 1kw. The meters read in kw/ hours. 24 hours in a day, and get your average. My families house is quite large and wasteful, which I can comment on positively at all, since I am “green” and definitely have my own thoughts on the enviroment. A good “safe” guess would be 3000 watt of constant use.
Have you thought of windpower? Much better if you can have it in your area. Lasts longer, and runs 24 hours a day. I would guess you need 6000 watts of solar panels, or a 3kw wind generator. Althought numbers look blurry at this point haha.
GO GREEN! Help out all the wasteful and polluting people!
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